The American house carpenter. A treatise on the art of building. Comprising styles of architecture, strength of materials, and the theory and practice of the construction of floors, framed girders, roof trusses, rolled-iron beams, tubular-iron girders, cast-iron girders, stairs, doors, windows, mouldings, and cornices; together with a compend of mathematics. A manual for the practical use of architects, carpenters, stair-builders, and others (1880)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879, Hatfield, O. P., ed · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 57
olonies wasthe Corinthian {Fig. 10). But this order the Roman artists,in their search for novelty, subjected to many alterations-especially in the foliage of its capital. Into the upper partof this they introduced the modified Ionic capital ; thus ARCHITECTURE. combining the two in one. This change…
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